2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 64 Monday, 23 October 2006
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 107 AB

Paleontology/Paleobotany III: Morphospace and Morphological Patterns

C. Kevin Boyce and Margaret M. Yacobucci, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
64-18:00 AM A HIDDEN-MARKOV MODEL FOR EVALUATING MACROEVOLUTIONARY TRENDS: GREENFEST-ALLEN, E., Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, egallen@brynmawr.edu
64-28:15 AM EVOLUTIONARY MODE IN FOSSIL SEQUENCES: AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY: HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, hunte@si.edu
64-38:30 AM MORPHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF DEVONIAN-TRIASSIC AMMONOIDS IN TIME AND MORPHOSPACE: SAUNDERS, W.B.1, WORK, D.M.2, GREENFEST-ALLEN, E.1, MCGOWAN, A.J.3, and NIKOLAEVA, S.V.4, (1) Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, wsaunder@brynmawr.edu, (2) Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME 04333, (3) Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom, (4) Paleontological Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117647, Russia
64-48:45 AM AVERAGE SUTURAL CURVATURE: AN INTUITIVE QUANTITATIVE MEASURE OF SUTURE COMPLEXITY: GILDNER, Raymond F., Department of Geosciences, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, gildnerr@ipfw.edu
64-59:00 AM DRESSING UP FOR THE DANCE: PATTERNS OF SUTURE VARIATION IN SEXUAL DIMORPHS OF LOWER TOARCIAN HILDOCERATINE AMMONITES: YACOBUCCI, Margaret M., Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 190 Overman Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0211, mmyacob@bgsu.edu
64-69:15 AM COMBINING ONTOGENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY SCALES OF MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY: A STUDY OF EARLY JURASSIC AMMONITES: GERBER, Sylvain, UMR 5561 Biogeosciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 6, Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon 21000 France, sylvain.gerber@u-bourgogne.fr
64-79:30 AM WHEN IS A SPECIES NOT A SPECIES? QUANTIFYING REGIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DIFFERENCES IN MORPHOLOGY FOR THE GENUS CUCULLAEA [BIVALVIA]: BUICK, Devin P., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geo/Phys Building, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, buickdp@email.uc.edu
 9:45 AM Break
64-810:00 AM SHELL PLASTICITY IN SAXIDOMUS NUTTALLI (BIVALVIA: VENERIDAE) FROM FOSSIL ROCK-BORING AND MODERN SAND-BURROWING HABITS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MORPHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION: BELANGER, Christina L., The Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, belanger@uchicago.edu
64-910:15 AM PLIO-PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTION SELECTIVITY IN VENEROID BIVALVES: AN ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND SURVIVORSHIP: KOLBE, Sarah E., Department of Geology, The College of William and Mary, 201 Peters Drive, Glenshaw, PA 15116, sekolb@wm.edu, LOCKWOOD, R., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, rxlock@wm.edu, and HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012
64-1010:30 AM COMBINING INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF DATA TO INVESTIGATE PATTERNS OF MORPHOSPACE OCCUPATION THROUGH TIME : AN EXAMPLE USING PALEOZOIC TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPOD GENERA: FITZGERALD, Paul C., Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, fitzgerald@geology.ucdavis.edu
64-1110:45 AM A QUANTITATIVE DICOT LEAF MORPHOSPACE: LYON, Mandela A., Earth & Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19143, mlyon@sas.upenn.edu
64-1211:00 AM A VEIN ATTEMPT AT TESTING HYPOTHESES IN EARLY ANGIOSPERM ECO-MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: CANALIZATION OF LEAF ARCHITECTURE: ARENS, Nan Crystal, Department of Geoscience, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, arens@hws.edu
64-1311:15 AM A PHYSIOLOGICALLY EXPLICIT MORPHOSPACE FOR WATER TRANSPORT IN VASCULAR PLANTS: WILSON, Jonathan P., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu and KNOLL, Andrew H., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2138
64-1411:30 AM THE ROLE OF SIZE FOR THE POTENTIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF EARLY COOKSONIA-LIKE VASCULAR PLANT RELATIVES: BOYCE, C. Kevin, Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, ckboyce@uchicago.edu

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